Re: [RFC PATCH 0/15] x86: Remove support for TSC-less and CX8-less CPUs

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Thu Apr 24 2025 - 14:01:52 EST



* Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> The patches most relevant to this discussion should be:
>
> x86/cpu: Remove M486/M486SX/ELAN support
> ...
> x86/cpu: Remove TSC-less CONFIG_M586 support
> x86/cpu: Make CONFIG_X86_TSC unconditional
> x86/cpu: Make CONFIG_X86_CX8 unconditional
> x86/percpu: Remove !CONFIG_X86_CX8 methods
> x86/atomics: Remove !CONFIG_X86_CX8 methods

also:

> x86/cpu: Remove TSC-less CONFIG_M586 support

Thanks,

Ingo